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Leviticus 7

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1 “Now this is the law of the guilt offering, which is most holy:

2 The guilt offering must be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and the priest shall splatter its blood on all sides of the altar.

3 And all the fat from it shall be offered: the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails,

4 both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys.

5 The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering to the LORD; it is a guilt offering.

6 Every male among the priests may eat of it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.

7 The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.

8 As for the priest who presents a burnt offering for anyone, the hide of that offering belongs to him.

9 Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it,

10 and every grain offering, whether dry or mixed with oil, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.

11 Now this is the law of the peace offering that one may present to the LORD:

12 If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.

13 Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread.

14 From the cakes he must present one portion of each offering as a contribution to the LORD. It belongs to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering.

15 The meat of the sacrifice of his peace offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day he offers it; none of it may be left until morning.

16 If, however, the sacrifice he offers is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, but the remainder may be eaten on the next day.

17 But any meat of the sacrifice remaining until the third day must be burned up.

18 If any of the meat from his peace offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presented it; it shall be an abomination, and the one who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.

19 Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it.

20 But if anyone who is unclean eats meat from the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.

21 If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.”

22 Then the LORD said to Moses,

23 “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.

24 The fat of an animal found dead or mauled by wild beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.

25 If anyone eats the fat of an animal from which a food offering may be presented to the LORD, the one who eats it must be cut off from his people.

26 You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings.

27 If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people.’”

28 Then the LORD said to Moses,

29 “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘Anyone who presents a peace offering to the LORD must bring it as his sacrifice to the LORD.

30 With his own hands he is to bring the food offerings to the LORD; he shall bring the fat, together with the breast, and wave the breast as a wave offering before the LORD.

31 The priest is to burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.

32 And you are to give the right thigh to the priest as a contribution from your peace offering.

33 The son of Aaron who presents the blood and fat of the peace offering shall have the right thigh as a portion.

34 I have taken from the sons of Israel the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution of their peace offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as a permanent portion from the sons of Israel.’”

35 This is the portion of the food offerings to the LORD for Aaron and his sons since the day they were presented to serve the LORD as priests.

36 On the day they were anointed, the LORD commanded that this be given them by the sons of Israel. It is a permanent portion for the generations to come.

37 This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering,

38 which the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai on the day He commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai.

KJV

1 ¶ Likewise this [is] the law of the trespass offering: it [is] most holy.

2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.

3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards,

4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] on them, which [is] by the flanks, and the caul [that is] above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away:

5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar [for] an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it [is] a trespass offering.

6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it [is] most holy.

7 As the sin offering [is], so [is] the trespass offering: [there is] one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have [it].

8 And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, [even] the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered.

9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest's that offereth it.

10 And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one [as much] as another.

11 ¶ And this [is] the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.

12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.

13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer [for] his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.

14 And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation [for] an heave offering unto the LORD, [and] it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.

15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.

16 But if the sacrifice of his offering [be] a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:

17 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.

18 And if [any] of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.

19 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean [thing] shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.

20 But the soul that eateth [of] the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that [pertain] unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean [thing, as] the uncleanness of man, or [any] unclean beast, or any abominable unclean [thing], and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which [pertain] unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.

24 And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it.

25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that eateth [it] shall be cut off from his people.

26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, [whether it be] of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

27 Whatsoever soul [it be] that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

28 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.

30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved [for] a wave offering before the LORD.

31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.

32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest [for] an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.

33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for [his] part.

34 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel.

35 ¶ This [is the portion] of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day [when] he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the priest's office;

36 Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, [by] a statute for ever throughout their generations.

37 This [is] the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;

38 Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.

1545 Luther's English Bible (LED)

Of the guilt offering and the thanksgiving offering.

1 And this is the law of the trespass offering: and this is the most holy.

2 In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the trespass offering be killed, and the blood thereof shall be sprinkled upon the altar.

3 And all the fat thereof shall be offered, the tail, and the fat of the bowels,

4 the two kidneys, with the fat attached, at the loins, and the caul above the liver, torn off at the kidneys.

5 And the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a fire unto the LORD. This is a trespass offering.

6 And the male of the priests shall eat thereof in the holy place: for it is the most holy.

7 As the sin offering, so shall the trespass offering be: both of them shall be one law, and shall be the priest's atonement.

8 Whosoever priest offereth any burnt offering shall have the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered.

9 And every meat offering that is baken in the oven, or on the grate, or in the pan, shall be the priest's that offereth it.

10 And every meat offering that is mingled with oil, or that is dry, shall be of all Aaron's sons, one as well as another.

11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which is offered unto the LORD.

12 If they will offer a sacrifice of praise, they shall offer unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened cakes spread with oil, and toasted cakes mingled with oil.

13 And they shall offer this sacrifice upon a cake of leavened bread for the sacrifice of his peace offerings.

14 And he shall offer one of them all for an heave offering unto the LORD: and he shall be the priest that sprinkleeth the blood of the sacrifice of peace offerings.

15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of praise in his peace offerings shall be eaten the same day that it is offered, and nothing shall be left over until the morning.

16 And if it be a vow, or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten the same day that it is offered: but if any remain unto the next day, it shall be eaten.

17 But that which remaineth of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.

18 And if any man eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings the third day, he that offered it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him, but it shall be an abomination: and whosoever eateth thereof shall be guilty of iniquity.

19 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten, but shall be burned with fire. He that is clean in body shall eat of the flesh.

20 And whatsoever soul shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, that uncleanness shall be upon him, and he shall be cut off from among his people.

21 And if any soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be unclean man, or beast, or any unclean thing that is abominable, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, it shall be cut off from among its people.

22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying:

23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no fat of oxen, or of lambs, or of goats.

24 But the fat of the carcase, and that which is torn of the beast, shall be for all your use, but ye shall not eat it.

25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the cattle that are offered unto the LORD, the same soul shall be cut off from among his people.

26 Neither shall ye eat blood, either of cattle, or of fowls, where ye dwell.

27 If any soul eat any blood, it shall be cut off from among its people.

28 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying:

29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever shall offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, let him bring also that which pertaineth unto the LORD for a sacrifice of peace offerings.

30 And he shall bring it with his hand for an offering unto the LORD: he shall bring the fat of the breast with the breast, and it shall be a wave before the LORD.

31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: and the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.

32 And the right shoulder shall they give unto the priest for a heave offering of their peace offerings.

33 And whichever of Aaron's sons shall offer the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat thereof, the right shoulder shall be his portion.

34 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel out of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and to his sons for a perpetual statute.

35 This is the anointing of Aaron and his sons of the sacrifices of the LORD, in the day that they were delivered to be priests unto the LORD,

36 For the LORD commanded in the day that he anointed them, that it should be given him of the children of Israel for an everlasting statute unto all their seed.

37 And this is the law of the burnt offering, and of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the meat offering, and of the peace offerings.

38 Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded him the children of Israel to offer their sacrifices unto the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai.

1545 Luther's English Bible (LED)

Machine-translated from Luther's final 1545 German Bible

The LED is an English rendering of Martin Luther's final 1545 German Bible. According to BackToLuther, it was produced by using the DeepL Translator on Luther's German text, then processed, polished, formatted, and hyperlinked for reading, while preserving chapter headings and other notations from orthodox German Lutheran Bibles.

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